Saudi-led coalition using cluster bombs in Yemen: HRW

Saudi-led coalition using cluster bombs in Yemen: HRW

The Saudi-led coalition bombing Huthi rebels in Yemen has been using US-supplied cluster munitions in its air campaign, Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday said.

The widely banned bombs contain dozens of submunitions, which sometimes do not explode, becoming de facto landmines that can kill or maim long after they were dropped.

HRW said that analysis of satellite imagery suggested that the weapons had landed on a cultivated plateau, within 600 meters of populated areas.

Cluster munitions are prohibited by a 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions treaty adopted by 116 countries, but not by the United States and Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners.

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